{"product_id":"biosocial-synchrony-on-sumba-9781498521840","title":"Biosocial Synchrony on Sumba","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBiosocial Synchrony on Sumba: Multispecies Relationships and Environmental Variations in Indonesia examines biosocial change in the Austronesian community of the Kodi by examining multispecies interactions between select biota and abiota.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBiosocial Synchrony on Sumba is an innovative, fascinating, and original take on a society we thought we knew quite well. Cynthia T. Fowler provides revealing and insightful passages that reflect on the relation of space and time, on the periodicity of sea worms and moon phases, and on rituals which try to recover lost souls from celestial bodies. -- Janet Hoskins, University of Southern California\u003cbr\u003eIn this lively and innovative book, with its engaging prose style, Cynthia Fowler takes us on a journey across radically different scales of understanding. Fowler suggests new ways of looking at the relationship between biological and non-biological entities and provocatively addresses some enduring concerns in the anthropology of cosmology. -- Roy Ellen, University of Kent\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1 Stretching Our Biosoical Universe Chapter 2 Making Worlds with Transtaxa Beings in Multispecies Swarms Chapter 3 The Interchangeability of Humans, Seaworms, and Spirits Chapter 4 Connecting with Celestial Bodies and Un-Grounding Space-Time Chapter 5 Listening for Cosmic Voices and Speculating about their Perspectives Chapter 6 Sequential Synchronies in Multispecies Interactions and Biosoical Change","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040677331287,"sku":"9781498521840","price":75.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498521840.jpg?v=1750947486","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/biosocial-synchrony-on-sumba-9781498521840","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}